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Constituent Assembly Debates. Official Report Thursday 26th May 1949

1949

What a marvellous outlook and change in the meeting of the Minorities Committee of the 11th May 1949 as compared with the first meeting of the same Committee in 1947 ! it was asked here yesterday: what has happened since 1947 that has made this Committee revise its decision ? I might inform the honourable House that at the first meeting it was not that the large majority of the Members were not o [...] The responsibility for the protection of their rights was entrusted to the Governors of the provinces by the Instrument. [...] There is one-kind of minority which on accOunof the tallness of th _ stature of its people the tallness of these figures and of the fact that they can take care of themselves in any part of the world generaly inspires terror in the minds of other minorities and even in the minds of the majority. [...] I wish in this connection to draw the attention of the House to the conditions prevailing in the province of Assam. [...] We call ourselves nationalists but perhaps in the mind of each the colour the texture of nationalism that is present is somewhatssilifferent from what -it is in the mind of the other.
government politics public policy
Pages
42
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100003
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
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Constituent Assembly of India Thursday the 26th May 1949
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